darkness/lightness changing on connect

[Rupertox]

Originally Posted by Haynar [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

It was my change FYI. And it looks great on machines I used to test. Not too dark, unless you were in a dark dungeon with no light.

Testing these type of changes for the masses is difficult, except on beta. I have another attempt to fix, but it may never get tried due to the complexities of testing.

If I were able to reproduce the results other have had, then I could test if it is possible at all.

To the people screaming and complaining: It was put out to test on the beta server. Testing takes place on beta. Get used to it.

H

Hi Haynar, i would want to say you that it Darkenst same way than in beta when i try to log in into blue (to Character Select screen....)

[Lunababy]

Originally Posted by Haynar [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

It was my change FYI. And it looks great on machines I used to test. Not too dark, unless you were in a dark dungeon with no light.

Testing these type of changes for the masses is difficult, except on beta. I have another attempt to fix, but it may never get tried due to the complexities of testing.

If I were able to reproduce the results other have had, then I could test if it is possible at all.

To the people screaming and complaining: It was put out to test on the beta server. Testing takes place on beta. Get used to it.

H

I would request this change not go live until it is perfected at a later date. Even if it's non-classic, the pre-patch gamma was great as-is.

[Man0warr]

So since the vast majority are having issues in testing, is the change going to be reverted? Velious and Blue share patches at the moment so it's already live.

No one is against gamma changes in EverQuest (humans should be punished) - people are complaining that your implementation is causing issues OUTSIDE of EverQuest that require computer restarts to fix unless you use 3rd party programs. This doesn't seem like the type of change to push straight to Blue/Red without feedback but I guess that is more up to Rogean/Nilbog than you.

[Malrubius]

Would it be possible to just darken the game world (avoiding the UI) by using the necessary D3D9 methods?

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/libr...(v=vs.85).aspx

Edit, bah, nm, this affects the entire screen too. Hmm.

Edit 2 - I think the only way to affect ONLY the game world might be to run its RGB values through a simple macro that reduces them by whatever amount makes sense for the char/equip/place. Probably the lights' RGBs, but I suppose vertex RGBs would work too. /shrug

[Haynar]

It did not darken my UI though.

H

[getsome]

Originally Posted by Haynar [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

It did not darken my UI though.

H

Perhaps you can share your set up. a quick copy and paste from dxdiag.

[rubinoff]

I'm not sure why people don't understand that a game can request to change the system gamma. It's not a conspiracy involving the staff installing spyware in the patch. This is something that is normal, you can test it by running games in windowed mode and adjusting the graphics settings. Some games will adjust the settings (temporarily until you exit) for the whole system. The under options for your graphics card you will find something which says Choose how color is set...A - Other applications/games control color setting or B - Use(force) nvidia/ati/system etc settings.

The problem is that now you have to force the system to run gamma higher than 100% in game. When you exit the settings no loner revert to your default and have to be manually adjusted every time. It sounds like a rework is in the pipeline which is good news!

[douglas1999]

Using photoshop I altered the kunark loadscreen to match what I'm seeing since this patch went in. I tried doing this with my cellphone but the images are so crappy looking I feel it would just confuse the issue more.

First image is the un-altered Kunark loading screen. If your system gamma is currently normal, it should look normal. Second image is an extremely close approximation of what I now see as my loading screen. I'm running winXP with a Geforce 8600 GT, latest drivers.

http://i.imgur.com/VLNgTFW.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/POQf1Hr.jpg

[Haynar]

Cant confirm, but would expect the gamma changes to not go out as is.

H

[Vicatin]

Originally Posted by Haynar [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Cant confirm, but would expect the gamma changes to not go out as is.

H

Any chance you can expound on this a bit? Not 100% clear currently.